RE: How long does CAP or ? require retention of surgical patholog y pa tient r...

From:"Morken, Tim"

Kelly wrote:
<>

In one hospital I worked at we kept our back logs and reports on microfilm.
The microfilm people could fax us a copy within a couple of hours of a
telephoned request.

These days we keep everything (accession logs, block logs, stain requests
and tests, final reports) in a local database and have instant access to any
record up to 8 years back. 

Tim Morken
Atlanta

-----Original Message-----
From: Kelly Brown [mailto:kelly.brown@clarkmemorial.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 3:12 PM
To: Cheryl Powell
Cc: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: RE: How long does CAP or ? require retention of surgical
pathology pa tient r...


I do not think there are specifics about off-site storage.  According to
CAP, they are supposed to be easily retrievable and only 2 years of
accession logs is required to be kept.  "Easy" is left open for
interpretation.  Our accession logs are computerized, so several years are
in the computer and backed up as well.  However, I would think one would
want to keep more than 1 or 2 years-- say at least 5 years of accession
records in the lab for fast retrieval if these records are not computerized.

Kelly Brown, MD
Jeffersonville, IN  

-----Original Message-----
From: Cheryl Powell [mailto:cherylhisto@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 2:54 PM
To: Kelly Brown; SMello8438@aol.com
Cc: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: RE: How long does CAP or ? require retention of surgical
pathology pa tient r...


We are having a problem with space at our hospital.  Does anyone know if
there is a break down of how far back you need to keep the accession
sheets
on site (at the hospital) or when can we shipp them to our storage
facility.
  We were thinking, keep a year, but is it regulated anywhere?









<< Previous Message | Next Message >>